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Thursday, October 08, 2009

Try really hard not to be jealous of me

Two nights ago, the Pretend Husband and I went upstairs, took our clothes off, got into bed, gazed into one another's eyes, slowly reached toward each other... and checked for ticks. Sadly, that's not a euphemism. It seemed like the right thing to do after finding three ticks on the dogs.

Oh, and that fun came after Molly suffered what we think was a seizure, which had us scared to death and moments from running out the door to the emergency vet. (She has since had blood work done and it wasn't caused by toxins, but could be the onset of epilepsy. Fun times.)

My in laws live in CT and their dog had lyme disease this summer. They were able to treat it and he was okay, but I don't know if it's cured or not. Very scary stuff. I also have a friend whose dad lives in CT and he has a pretty severe case of lyme. A few years ago he had blood poisoning from it and needed a transfusion. It's amazing to me that so much havoc can be caused by such tiny animals, but at the same time, if you think about how microscopic bacteria are, it isn't that shocking.

Where we live in CA we have lizards that actually prevent lyme disease, because when the ticks drink the lizards' blood, something in their blood kills whatever causes the disease. Weird, right? Y'all need some lizards, stat! I can send you some! They sometimes hide out in my dishwasher.

I hope your dogs are okay, and definitely keep checking each other for ticks!

Your post was kind of funny to start but sorry to hear about Molly. Hope all will be well I am reading some of your comments and lyme disease is in many areas of country and iicks everywhere and a very bad disease carried by ticks especially in the west is rocky mt spotted fever! it has been around a very long time and quite dangerous. Keep up the tick checks!

It's hard to imagine two friends who are less alike. While we live in the same town and are married to guys who grew up together, one of us has a daughter while the other has a son. One of us works full-time while the other stays home and dabbles in a bunch of part-time gigs. One of has lots of adventures but not enough time to blog about them, while the other leads a more boring life and has plenty of time to write about it. One thing we do have in common is our sense of humor... and the knowledge that we're funny. Very funny. See if you agree...

We also have some pretty funny readers. Leave your comments (funny or otherwise), especially if it includes references to how fast we look like we've lost the baby weight.